Kiev -
Amnesty International on Thursday said it had new proof of the "summary killings" of Ukrainian soldiers captured by pro-Russian separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, and demanded a quick impartial probe.

Girona -
Joan Vila Dilmé, the security guard who was tried for killing eleven elderly residents in a nursing home, has received a sentence of 127 years for his crimes. He had told the court that he was "ending their suffering."

Girona -
Joan Vila Dilme, a security guard at a Spanish retirement home, has been found guilty of the killing of eleven elderly residents, which, according to him, was to "end their suffering." Prosecutors are looking at a 194-year sentence for his crimes.

Lagos -
Recently, the Chairman, Governing Council of the NHRC, Prof. C. Odinkalu, said at a workshop in Abuja, that the Nigerian police executes over 5,000 detainees summarily every year. He said that officers responsible for the killings were never punished

Their faces still haunt us from our paper and cyber pages, even as the days turn into weeks since that awful night at the movies. Most of us probably do not know their names; we probably could not pick them out of a list.

Oakland -
The New York Times is reporting that according to Oakland's police chief, the former nursing student accused of killing 7 people and wounding 3 others at Oikos University in Oakland, California lined up his victims before shooting them.

Mogadishu -
One week after the death of two World Food Program staff members and an aid worker, two staff members of Doctors Without Borders were killed in the capital of Somali. The government labels the killings as isolated incidents.

Tucson -
Arizona’s Republican party is taking conservative compassion to a new level, with the Pima County Republican Party raffling, for $10 per ticket, a Glock 23 handgun, the same type used in Tuscon’s shooting which killed six people.

The Mindanao massacre saga finally ended Friday with the arrest and detention of Mayor Andal Ampatuan, Jr., a primary suspect in the killing of 57 civilians and journalists in Maguindanao, southern Philippines

Eleven more dead bodies were recovered from mass graves by police investigating the gruesome massacre of civilians and news reporters by at least 100 armed men believed to be supporters of a political clan of Maguindanao, bringing the death toll to 57

At least 10 news reporters were killed while on their way to cover a political event in a remote area in Maguindanao Philippines, along with some 15 others including the wife of a town vice mayor and other political supporters.

Pope Benedict XVI has sounded a warning against witchcraft beliefs that caused fear among their followers. Speaking in the Angolan capital, Luanda, the Pontiff described the effects of some of these beliefs

Echoing the 1971 sentiments of Democrat anti-war Senator and failed 2004 presidential candidate, John Kerry, the New York Times is now running their own “War Veterans are monsters” series, surely to raise public fears of our Heroes.

A report says at least 121 veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan war have committed a murder or have been charged with murder in the US. Total murders by veterans for the past six years have increased 89% compared to the previous six years.

An animal rights group in Italy has started an initiative called “black cat day” this Saturday in an effort to try and stop the senseless killing of thousands of the cats by superstitious citizens who want to ward off bad luck.

Today, a leading broadsheet in the UK, The Sunday Telegraph reported in detail on the growing crime in Britain called, honor killings. They may be seen to be something that effects the minorities within our communities, but what does it spell for us?

New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.

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A bald eagle preparing to snatch a salmon in the Alsek River. The Alsek is a wilderness river flowing from Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska.

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Chicago ended up having a very bloody Fourth of July.

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People carry as they lower the bodies of the five civilian activists, who were killed during what activists said was an ambush, into their graves during their funeral in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus November 24, 2013. Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad

With permission by Reuters / Bassam Khabieh

People carry as they lower the bodies of the five civilian activists, who were killed during what activists said was an ambush, into their graves during their funeral in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus November 24, 2013. Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad

With permission by Reuters / Bassam Khabieh

Hotel Riu Emerald Bay in Mexico's Mazatlan resort region, where on Saturday, January 21, 2012, a young Canadian woman in her 20s, was found very badly beaten and unconscious in an elevator

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Masked Sunni Muslims gunmen take position with their weapons during their patrol in the city of Falluja, 70 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad, February 26, 2014